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`N0. 69.853. Patented oct. 15, 1867.

'geiten taies gatrnt @ffice JARED W. SMITH, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

Letters Patent No. 69,853, dated October 15, 1867; antedateol October 3, 1867.

MACHINE FOR CUTTING TOBACCO.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, J. W. SMITH, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven, and State of Connecticut, have invented new and useful improvements in Machines for Cutting Tobacco, etc.;-and that the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, hereinafter referred to, forms a full and exact l specification of thel same, wherein I have set forth the nature and principles ofmy said improvements, by which my invention may be distinguished from all others of arsimilar class, together with such parts as I claim and desire, to have secured to me by Letters `Patent.

In the machine embraced by the present invention one or more circular knife-blades are hung to a frame or beam, arranged 'to swing around in a circular plane, with the knives so connected to the drivingpower that as the beam revolves they will revolve, and thereby produce a draw cut upon the tobacco or other material fed along to thc same. In combination with the revolving knives, Scrapers are arranged to scrape, and thus to remove and clear from them, the tobacco that may have been left upon them in the cutting operation; and also sharpeningwhcels, for sharpening and resetting the cutting edges of the knife. In the acccn'ipanying` sheet of drawings rmy improvement-s in machines for cutting tobacco, ctc., are illustrated- Figure 1 being a plan or tcp view of the machine, and

Figure 2 an elevation of one end of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

1A, in the drawings, represents the framework of the machine, suitably constructed to receive the working parts of the same. B, the drivingshaft, hung in suitable bearings ofthe framework A so as to revolve therein in a horizontal plane. Cn this shaft B is a gear-wheel, C, with which a gear-wheel, D, engages, hung by its spindle or shaft E to the outer end of a frame or beam, F, arranged to swing around upon the driving-shaft B. G, a-circular knife-blade, secured to spindle E, carrying gear-wheel D. H, a knife-blade, secured to beam F, in positionto project over the front side of the cutting edge of the circular knife G, with its cutting edge I in the p1ope1direction to scrape the circular knife G asI it revolves. J, sharpening-rollers or wheels, hung by v their vshafts Kin swinging beam F, and so as to bear or act upon the faces of the circular knife as it revolves, `th't one upon one side and the other upon the other, and thus to sharpen the same. These sharpening-wheels rare connected through belts L with the driving-shaft of the machine. M, the feed-box' for the tobacco to pass to the cutting-knives. Y

. The' operation of the machine, constructed as above described, is as follows: The tobacco to be cutis placed inthe feed-box M, wherein being pressed forward to its open end N, the circular knife Cr, as the beam carrying it i's swung around, cuts the tobacco by such knife, which, as it passes through the tobacco, having a revolving motion, producesthereby a drawing cut on the same, the scraper cleansing the circular knife from the tobacco remaining upon it, and the wheels resharpening the cutting edges.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The beam or frame F, arranged to revolve, and provided with one or more revolving circular knives, Cr, substantially as described for the purpose specified.

2. The scraper II, in combination with the revolving circular knives G, substantially as and for the purpose described.

3. The sharpening-rollers J, in combination with the knives G, substantially as and for the purpose specified,

.The above specification of my invention signed by me this 13th day of February, 1867.

JARED W. SMITH. Witnesses:

`WM.' F. McNimauA, ALBERT W. Bnowu. 

